0 present participle of ruminate --
1 to think carefully and for a long period about something: --
2 (of particular types of animal) to bring up food from the stomach and chew it again --
They are ruminating on their chances of mere survival, let alone victory in the coming fight.
I have been ruminating about the financial policy that has been followed by this country in the last 10 years and about its effect upon the colonial world.
I have spent a quite disproportionate part of my life thinking about cricket, playing cricket, ruminating about cricket and watching cricket.
It is a thought worth ruminating upon, but perhaps the opposite is true as well—that before every economic revival there must come a spiritual revival.
A standing order made in 1961 allows the importation of ruminating animals and swine by the main zoological societies under suitable safeguards.
And so frustrated thousands will have to spend the holiday season ruminating in their gardens while the nationalised express trains thunder past half empty.
Whether ruminating on negative thoughts about the self is more associated with persistence of disorder in adolescents, as suggested from studies of young adults, is not known.
Most people in the 1950s were grappling with the present, not ruminating on the past, and private concerns were what took centre stage most of the time.
